MAX Eco Taster

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I’m looking for a MAX Eco Taster implementation but inside the pimatic-max plugin I did not find any syntax.
Have anybody an idea how to use this switch with pimatic?

as far as i know this has not been implemented.
maybe @sweetpi or @georg90 can help?

@leader21 said:

as far as i know this has not been implemented.
maybe @sweetpi or @georg90 can help?

That’s correct. Sorry there is no implmentation, yet.

Come to think about it, the implementation of the Eco Taster / switch would be great.
The problem I am facing is, that if I want to set my heating thermostats into eco mode or heating mode I need some rules an a buttons device.
When the eco switch once is defined at the basic setup on the cube, the eco switch is taking care of all thermostats and will set them into the defined mode.

would it be possible to implement the eco switch into the max plugin somehow?

Hi Guys,

at the moment i am working on a pimatic plugin which controls the max! devices over the Busware CUL device (pimatic-maxcul).

At the moment you can use the shutter contacts an set the desired temperature in the heating elements.

Unfortunately i don’t have the whole protocoll in mind and can’t find any informations about it. My only information sources,to rebuild the system in node, are the fhem sources. But…perl you knwo .

Does anyone have more informations about the protocoll?

does this help?
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=6654#p50589

Hey Thanks for your reply.

Indeed i know this page, but the information are not complete, because the cubes handles parts of the wireless protocol by itself (retransmiting, message count calculation etc.)

The biggest Problem in the Moment, is that i don’t have a reliable serial queue implementation with ACK / retransmit handling and promise support. So there is the possibility that packets get lost.

I can’t find an good concept for an implementation in node with promises.

@fbeek said:

at the moment i am working on a pimatic plugin which controls the max! devices over the Busware CUL device (pimatic-maxcul).

That:s great. Is it alot different from https://github.com/dfischbach/pimatic-coc? Did you try pimatric-coc at all? It is said to support CUL.

This is a great initiative! I’m thinking of buying a few of the MAX! wireless thermostats, which I would like to control with a DIY CUL (already have a RFM69HW @868MHz, did not yet try it though).

@mwittig Yes i tried the pimatic-coc already. The Implementation of the Max! protocol i much different.
The problem is that you need to handle a lot of messages between the devices and so you need a reliable implementation with ACK and retransmit handling.
As i remember the modes that where already implemented in the pimatic-coc module do not handle these requirements.
It only sends the messages out and receives the messages without responses.

The MAX! System is realy good. I have 4 thermostats with 10 Window Sensors. But i hate the cube

I know this thread is old, but today i opened a pull request against the github repo from @fbeek which now supports the max eco button. To whom it may concern

@w3stbam
GREAT maybe you have the skills and the hardware for the max power plug too … ?
don’t have it personally but then the max hardware is completely covered by pimatic.
sorry you give a finger and i grab your whole arm ^^

If anyone can send me a free sample of that device i will of course do it

ah sorry, my fault! either the power socket won’t be sold anymore or it has been from another hardware system and i just mixed thinings up!
anyways thx for your pull request and offer of asistance

gonna have to search my eco button now

There is such a socket and it’s sold: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00HFKVZ7K/ref=pd_cp_23_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=V4K4GYAFK0CXS0K7DSQV

ah ok! then i was right. well the question is whether it makes sense to implement this. i was looking at elv.de for this socket, they are max Distributor in germany but dud not find it there. so i assumed it has been discontinued maybe.

Hello,

the request is merged an published in pimatic-maxcul 0.9.4.

I have no eco button, so i can’t test the code.
As far as i can see you can now use the button as rule trigger, but it can’t be directly paired with the heating thermostats.

@w3stbam: Special thanks to you for implementing this feature Can you send me some example messages from the debug log for my documentation?

Regards

fbeek